MARK KNOPFLER, LIGHTS OF TAORMINA, Lyrics below

MARK KNOPFLER, LIGHTS OF TAORMINA, 4 times new images version, Lyrics: There’s laughter in the darkness, Music floating in across the bay, He’s half listening and wondering, How he could have let her slip away, So long ago but still he wants to know, If anyone has seen her, And he’s sitting out in the night, Looking down upon the lights of Taormina.
They were young and love was shining, Like the colours of the rainbow, Desire felt like choking, Love was smoking under the volcano, He can still taste her kisses, Sweet as the red wine from Messina, Now he’s sitting out in the night, Looking down upon the lights of Taormina
Seems like another lifetime, When they rambled along the shore, Seems like another lifetime, She used to call him her sweet senor, Maybe in another lifetime, On a pathway to the sea, Maybe there they’ll be
The crowd calls for the emperor, Raise their hands to hail another king, But he’s been so long a wanderer, Another crowd can never mean a thing, He came, he saw, he conquered, Ten thousand voices roared in the arena, Now he’s sitting out in the night, Looking down upon the lights of Taormina
He hears the chimes of history, Myths of gods and men forever ringing, Ancient dreams in all their mystery, Wars for Sicily and Spartan women, In the midst of antiquity, Ships of war set sail from Carthagina, Now he’s sitting out in the night, Looking down upon the lights of Taormina